Knowledge is power—and no knowledge was more assiduously coveted by European nations in the ... Photograph by Prisma/Album Medieval maps were usually constructed using a wind rose (a diagram ...

The Mappa Mundi, completed by monk Fra Mauro in 1459, is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world. Video by Anna ...

Sheffield is home to one of the largest communities of medieval archaeologists in the UK, with expertise ranging from late antiquity to the early modern period. Our research specialisms lie ...

The volume features original new work on Old Norse poetry and saga, other languages and literatures of medieval north-western Europe, and the afterlife of Old Norse in modern English literature.